Word: djuanda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only God." announced the revival of the 1945 revolutionary constitution. His fiat swept out of office the 17th government to rule Indonesia in 14 years, dissolved the Constituent Assembly, emasculated some 40-odd political parties and caused the resignation of the 27-man Cabinet of his loyal ally, Premier Djuanda...
...only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not a single post went to a Communist or a fellow traveler. Able ex-Premier Djuanda was named First Minister and Finance Minister. The army got two plums: the important Ministry of Security and Defense went to Army Commander Lieut. General A. Haris Nasution and the Production Ministry to Colonel Suprajogi. The harried Communists, who still support Sukarno because any other choice might mean extinction, cheered faintly...
Back home in Indonesia, while he was away, the Constituent Assembly refused to play mouse. In long, hot, humid sessions, some 65 orators monotonously followed one another to the rostrum to orate. Privately, many of them pressed Premier Djuanda for firm promises of future employment if they voted in Sukarno's constitution. Djuanda was at first evasive, finally lost his temper and shouted that "unpredictable things may happen"-a thinly disguised threat of a military takeover if the assembly did not get a move on. Angrily, the assemblymen three times refused to pass Sukarno's plan, and then...
...right-wing rebellion, sporadic, unmilitant, but persistent, threatens the nation's resources of oil and rubber. Indonesia is even more dangerously threatened by a Communist Party that is the largest in Asia outside of Red China. But the personal magnetism of Sukarno, the political leadership of Premier Djuanda, and the surprisingly competent and anti-Communist army under General Haris Nasution have so far kept the nation a full step ahead of anarchy...
...problem is one that bothers every new nation -reconciling the need for system and order with democratic procedures when no one has much experience in such matters. Worked out in collaboration with his able Prime Minister Djuanda and National Council Chief Ruslan Abdulgani...